What if God’s love were like the sun, constant and unchanging? What if one day you realized nothing could take that away?Firebird is a bright orange baby Oriole who just loves the sunshine. But whenever a storm blows in, he frets and asks Mama why God allows the rain to take the sun away. When Firebird is finally old enough, his mother gently instructs him to fly up through the thunder and lightning to see what’s on the other side. It’s a rough flight and just when he’s about to give up, Firebird rises above the storm to discover the sun shining where it always had been.Firebird is a children’s book that parallels the life of Samantha Crawford, a storybook artist in the inspirational film Unconditional, who lost sight of God’s love and discovered it again.

Brent McCorkle wrote and directed the film Unconditional. His previous movie, The Rift, a metaphoric story about adoption, was a winner in The Doorpost Film Project 2009. Brent and his wife have five children.

Amy Parker has written more than twenty books for children, teens, and adults including My Christmas List, the best-selling A Night Night Prayer, and two Christian Retailing’s Best award winners. Amy and her husband have two children.

Rob Corley achieved his life-long goal of becoming a Disney animator in 1990 after completing his illustration studies. Over his years at Disney, Rob had a hand in creating such Disney characters as the Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Brother Bear, and Aladdin. Corley is the owner of Funnypages Productions in Franklin, TN.

Chuck Vollmer began working as a Disney background artist in May of 1991, and had a hand in creating Disney classics including Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Lilo and Stich. Mulan ,and The Princess and the Frog as well as on several VeggieTales DVDs and books. Chuck works as lead staff artist at Funnypages Productions in Franklin, TN.